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...nation of youth -45% of the population of America is under 25 years of age. God save us from that day when we must say to the young men and women of America: 'We cannot trust you. We cannot depend upon you. We cannot use you -except for fodder in the flames of war.'" Moyers also feels strongly about Texas. A television interviewer, noting Moyers' soft twang, asked: "Do I detect a Texas accent?" Replied Moyers quickly: "Not only in my speech, sir, but in my heart...
...Instead of just livestock, the land is producing vast amounts of wheat and other crops; in the next few years a $50 million irrigation project will transform the arid pampa seca southwest of Buenos Aires into a 200,000-acre region that will eventually produce $60 million worth of fodder, fruit and vegetables annually. There are few regrets for the pampas...
Caught up in the revolution of 1910, Pedro finally realized that young men like himself were being turned into cannon fodder by a variety of self-proclaimed generals and reformers. He deserted and went home. There he led the life of a poor farmer, struggling to grow corn on a rented field a good two hours' walk from his mud-walled house. He took women where he found them, ran his home with paternalistic authoritarianism. But he commanded enough local respect to become a political figure of sorts, first as a leader of his barrio, later as a town...
...project will undergo extensive training in Berea, Kentucky in June before departure for Missisippi. None of this indicates either that SNCC will accept young people who cannot act in a disciplined fashion under what will certainly be dangerous circumstances, or that students are looked upon as expendable "cannon fodder" to be put to "tactical advantage...
Most of Coach Bob Pickett's nine-man squad isn't likely to see much action after today's first two rounds. The basic role of the eight Ivy teams in the sixteen-team tournament is to serve as early round cannon-fodder for the big guns--Pitt, Penn State, Lehigh, Syracuse, and Navy...